How about a law that forces manufacturers to support their products for a mandatory period of time and to fix vulnerabilities within a timely manner to a satisfactory standard?
How about a law that ensures there are no backdoors and their equipment is not vulnerable to Krack, or Broadpwn, or the BeEF Metasploit network, or mDNS / DNLA packet flooding?
What about a law that forces the manufacturers to have a minimum level of security like changing admin, admin login, disabling WPS, default WiFi passwords which aren't Numpty1 or Dummy1234?
How about a law which criminalises the crippling of routers so that you cannot use all the features?
Aren't these the reasons why people use third party firmware in the first place?
Maybe if they sorted out their shoddy kak then people wouldn't choose third party firmware. It's a bit like saying people are choosing to cook their own meals as the restaurant food is so revolting that nobody wants to eat it, so let's pass a law forcing everyone to eat it.
P.S. Anyone want a free "Super Router"? I could always find another door stop.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
